Bronze birch borer

Agrilus anxius

"Agrilus anxius", the bronze birch borer, is a wood-boring buprestid beetle native to North America, more numerous in warmer parts of the continent and rare in the north. It is a serious pest on birch trees, frequently killing them.
Bronze birch borer  Agrilus anxius,Bronze birch borer,Geotagged,Spring,United States

Appearance

The river birch "Betula nigra" is the most resistant species, other American birches less so, while the European and Asian birches have no resistance to it at all and are effectively impossible to grow in the eastern United States as a result.

It is closely related to the emerald ash borer.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderColeoptera
FamilyBuprestidae
GenusAgrilus
SpeciesA. anxius